| Show l NO o MONEY fOR llL a t i e Former Queen of Hawaii ShutOut Shut-Out from Payroll > + UNCLE SAM NOT INDEBTED t I No Annuity from the United States I 1 for Former Monarchs or Rulers of I Islands which this Country Has Acquired There are 300 Employees to Wait Upon 90 Senators Allen 1 Seeks to Havo this Big Army Ho 1t t duced Salaries Paid this Forco S Amount to 8510000 Annually d t Washington March 10 While tho Senate had the diplomatic and con oular appropriation bill under consideration consider-ation today a lively debate was precipitated 1 cipitated by an amendment proposed j by Sir Hoar proposing to give former m Queen LllluokalanI of Hawaii 20000 of 10000 The amend and an annuity o I ment was tabled finally without dlvl elon The pending bill was passed with a few minor amendments The remainder re-mainder of tho session was devoted to + eulogies of the late M L Hayward ALLEN SEEKS INFORMATION Mr Allen Introduced a resolution directing di-recting the Committee on Rules to report N re-port to the Senate why the secretary of the Senate had not Cor several years reported at the beginning of each session ses-sion the number of clerks messengers and other employees together with their salaries In accordance with a provision pro-vision of the statutes Mr Allen said that the statement has not been made for several years An agreement reached a number of years ago by Senators Sen-ators had been violated and the Senate Sen-ate force had been rapidly Increased until now It numbered about 300 = persons per-sons drawing aggregate salaries of 510000 The resolution was passed PROTEST AGAINST JUNKETS A resolution reported from the Committee Com-mittee on Contingent Expenses authorizing author-izing the Committee on Relations with Cuba to have a subcommittee visit 1 Cuba was objected to by Mr Cockrcll He had noticed he said several propositions propo-sitions to send committees and subcommittees sub-committees of Congress on expeditions to various places and he now wanted to enter his protest against these junkets Jun-kets The icsolullon went over LEASES OF INDIAN LANDS Mr Thurslon had passed a resolution railing upon the Secretary of the Interior In-terior to Inform the Senate whether any leases of lands hi the Wind River u Indian reservation In Wyoming had been made DIPLOMATIC APPROPRIATIONS Mr Hale then called up the diplomatic diplo-matic and consular appropriation bill The measure carries JlJCjTGS rite more important amendments were the following Making the salary of the Consul at LaOuayaia Venezuela OCO Instead of 1600 Increasing the salary of the Minister to Slam 7300 from 55000 providing a third secretary for the United States embassy to Mexico Increasing the salaryof the Consul General at Frankfort from 3000 to MOOO I MOOOTVANTED WANT D MONEY FOR Lib Mr Hoar of Massachusetts offered ann an-n lm providing that 20000 be palO 10 iiiiuoicaiaiii former Queen or the Hawaiian IsUuids and that 10000 a year l hereafter bd paid to her during her natural life In explanation of the amendment Mr Hoar said the former Queen was the proprietor In her own right of much property that had been lost to her by her dethronement He said that she had been the subject of cruel calumnies which he was assured had not the slightest foundation in fact He was satisfied her life had been quite blameless and spotless NO CLAIM ON UNCLE SAM ° Mr Tlllmnn insisted that if any ob ligation existed at all it was one of Hawaii and not of the United Stales Mr Platt of Connecticut did not be lieve the former Queen had the slightest slight-est claim on the United Slates and while he would be willing to Join in the making of a donation to her In the circumstances he would not agree to legislation that recognized her right to any such payments Mr Galllnger denounced the proposed appropriation as utterly unjustifiable Mr Lodge while admitting that the former Queen had no claim on tho United Slates said the proposition made was simply as an act of grace LUMP SUM SUGGESTED Mr Thurston suggested the donation to the former Queen of a lump sum He itrongly opposed putting her on the pension rolls of the United States Mr Cockrell in opposition to the amendment declared It was a dangerous danger-ous precedent to establish at this time If we are to pension all the monarchs dethroned from our Islands said he we arc likely to have our bands full There will be the Queen of Hawaii the Queen of the Sulus and theNmonarchs of many other places Headed by the Queen of Hawaii with 10000 the list will go down to SOOO for Homebody else then to 7000 and finally wind up with a pension of5000 > for widows of Presi dents of the United States PERTINENT QUESTION Mr Morgan Will you include the widow of Agulnuldo Laughter Mr Cockrell Why of course well have to put her In I In conclusion Mr Cockrell announced hits opposition to the pensioning of any monarch in any circumstances thus far developed Mr Tillman contended that the I amendment was without equity He thought If there was any claim at all 1 It should be paid by 1 the people of Hawaii Ha-waii Mr McCumber also opposed the iI amendment taking tho position that there was no moral or legal obligation JRto pay the proposed pension Ho did snot concede that Liliuokalanl had been entitled to continue in the olllce AMENDMENT KILLED On motion of Mr Carter of Montana the amendment was laid on the table y The bill was then passed The resolution reported earlier In tho day authorizing the Cuban committee of the Senate to visit Cuba was taken up and passed On motion of Mr Carter the Senate J agreed to meet at 10 oclock next Monday Mon-day to continue tho reading of the yl Alaskan Mr Thurston presented resolutions commemorative of the services of the I late Monroe L Hayward Senatorelect from Nebraska and delivered a eulogy I eulo-gy upon Mr Hayward as also did I Messrs Fairbanks Spooner and Allen AH a further mark of respect the Senate Sen-ate at 215 p in adjourned |
